| Director | Anup Bhandari |
|---|---|
| Genre | mystery film |
| Runtime | 149 min |
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹1.5 crore |
| Box office | ₹43 crore |
Gautham Suvarna is a novelist, leading a reclusive life in Ooty. His latest novel is titled RangiTaranga, a word which might hold the key to his past. Indu, Gautham's wife, is a soft-natured girl who paints the cover pages of all of Gautham's novels. Sandhya, a self-proclaimed reporter from Bangalore, is in search of an anonymous writer who goes by the pen name Anushka. She finds out about the writer from a publisher and sets on a journey to find him. A pregnant Indu finds herself in trouble when she repetitively gets nightmares of an accident. She then convinces Gautham to visit her ancestral home in the village of Kamarottu in order to perform some rituals to solve her problems. Upon their arrival in Kamarottu, Gautham befriends the post master Kalinga and the elderly school head master Shankar.
During their stay in the village, Indu experiences strange occurrences in the house, including an incident where Indu is almost pulled into a well while she is fetching a bucket of water. The incident provokes Gautham to investigate the village further. He learns from Kalinga that the well contains Brahmarakshasa (devil) and that the Kamarottu home is haunted by a ghost (Guddada Bhoota). Gautham's investigation also irks the powerful men in the village: on one occasion, one of the henchmen of a powerful politician attacks Gautham, leaving him injured. Meanwhile, Sandhya's trail leads her to Kamarottu. Indu goes missing one night and later, the local police declare that she was killed six years ago in an accident. Confused, Gautham starts searching for her and discovers an illegal sand mafia, led by the corrupt politician Mahabala Hegde, along with the local police, which leads him to conclude that their attack on him was merely to cover up their illegal activity.
Sandhya meets Gautham during the investigation of his wife's disappearance and helps him in discovering a diary titled Harini. Through this diary, Gautham discovers that the woman who he believed to be his wife Indu, was actually Harini, a yoga instructor from Bangalore, and that he himself is not Gautham. Indu and her husband Gautham were in reality, Harini's friends. In a desperate and impulsive attempt to escape further abuse, Harini killed a man who was abusive to her and threatened her after she spurned his physical advances. Horrified by the realization that she has killed a person and terrified by the prospect of legal repercussions, she confides in Indu and Gautham, who decide to take her to Kamarottu and create an alibi for her. It is revealed that Gautham was actually Siddharth, an aspiring writer/singer who was in love with Sandhya.
Telling her that he will be back soon, Siddharth leaves for a bike trip with his college friends. Under a thick blanket of fog, Siddharth and his friend on a motorbike collides with the car carrying Indu, Gautham and Harini, near the Kamarottu junction. Harini and Siddharth, who has lost his memory, are the sole survivors of the accident. Harini, reluctant to go back to her previous life, assumes the identity of her now-dead friend Indu, and informes the authorities and Siddharth that he is her husband Gautham. With nothing else to go on to, Siddharth accepts this as the truth. After learning the truth about his past, Gautham and Sandhya infiltrate the police station and search the records. They find a strange coincidence in the missing person files: every year on July 7, a woman goes missing in the village. When they check with the families of the missing women, they learn that they were pregnant—like Indu—and that the Guddada Bhoota is responsible for the abductions.
They initially suspect the local doctor, as he is the only person who has access to the pregnancy reports in the village, but he reveals that his girlfriend, Anasuya, was the first victim of the Guddada Bhoota. After connecting the dots, Gautham and Sandhya realise that the pregnancy reports are delivered from the hospital to the patient via post, and the only person who has access to all the posts is Kalinga. After enquiring Shankar about further information, they deduce that Kalinga is the Guddada Bhoota and is responsible for the abductions. Kalinga's wife, Anasuya, had an extramarital affair with the local doctor; on July 7, when Kalinga found out, Anasuya did not reveal the doctor's identity, and he mistook Angara, a mentally ill man from the village, to be her lover and beheaded him.
Kalinga tortured his wife in an abandoned house on the hillock, finally killing her after 11 days. After this incident, he became mentally tormented and began killing other pregnant women on the same day (July 18) while donning the Bhoota Vesha (Devil's attire). After learning this, Siddharth tracks Kalinga down with the help of Shankar, fearing that Kalinga is about to kill Harini (as it is July 18). Upon finding his hideout, Siddharth engages in a brutal fight with Kalinga and eventually kills him, saving Harini. Later, Harini gives birth to a child. Sandhya wishes Siddharth well, telling him that he is probably better off being with Harini and his newborn child. She leaves without revealing her relationship with Siddharth or his true identity, nursing a broken heart.